Friday, 15 November 2013

I'm sure I was always taught that we humans had an inbuilt need for God. I'm sure it is part of our understanding of our faith, that we all have in us a need to seek and find our Creator. This is no doubt true. What is getting me down a bit is just how smothered this need is. I fear many are just seeking some sort of deity, and actually I'm concerned that many would be perfectly content if they found Apollo. However, nobody has seen Apollo for years and even Cassandra is getting a bit concerned........

Aggie and Cassie’s
house

The Underworld

Leto’s house

Mount Olympus

Dear Apollo,

I’m writing to you here because I’m sort of a bit worried
about you, and if your mother doesn’t know where you are, then nobody
does.Nobody has seen you around for a while,
are you OK?There was some rumour that
you were really sick and didn’t want to be seen.Whatever is wrong, it is out of character and
I have a funny feeling that you may actually be in trouble.Don’t get me wrong, I used to hate you more
that I hated that little squirt that raped me, but time does funny things to
you and I find myself remembering the good times we had; those intellectual
fireworks, that easy laughter, that sense of camaraderie.I never fancied you, but you could have been
a good friend.I’m just not sure you
ever understood the concept of friendship, and that is a pity.Still, here I am offering you a hand of
friendship and if you are in trouble and want someone to talk to, you know
where I am.

You see, perhaps the world was a better place when you were
obviously around.You blazed through both the Renaissance and the Enlightement when you had a
lot of fun, and men were so confident and inspired by your ideal.Naturally, you were terrified by the Reign of Terror and its aftermath and
seemed to become much more involved in science and medicine after that, and
much less involved in the arts.Public
works programmes and philanthropy brought out a caring, mature side to your
personality.You grew in stature during
the Industrial Revolution, though I’d say your sense of style wavered a
little.Your last big triumph was
penicillin.What a breakthrough!Now, it is said you have been laid low by an
antibiotic resistant strain of some unmentionable disease caught from one of
your later conquests.Didn’t see that
one coming , did you? ;-p

Sorry, that was below the belt.I hope you take it as a joke between
friends.Well, dear Apollo, it is my
view that you really should have never spat in my mouth that time. I’ve forgiven you for that vile act and I’ve
had plenty to time to be reconciled to my fate.Indeed, had you not done that, I’d never have met Aggie, and we are
actually blissfully happy together down here for eternity.He’s a good bloke, I do prefer older men. When
you gods act out of spite it invariably does you more harm than the creature
you are trying to punish, I think it weakened you.I’m just not sure women ever found you
attractive. You used to flatter yourself with those Muses of yours, but they're really just projections of your own self-love. Let’s face it, it is men
that want you. You are their role model; all that learning, culture and healing
of the sick, all those conquests, and all wrapped up in a body to die for.It is men that think you can give them
something.It is men that are missing
you. There is so little culture now; so few great works of art, so little
refinement, so little taste. Tempt yourself away fromyour mum’s home baking and rescue men from
their carpet slippers, novelty jumpers and Lady Gaga on the TV.Give men some inspiration to be extravagant
and think big.Go on, inspire the world,
turn yourself on again, big man!

Or is it that you too have grown a bit fat and lethargic and
are feeling a bit empty and a bit
depressed.Is it that Mount Olympus has
become a naff gated community?Are you
all worried about intruders?Are you
paranoid that the modern world, whilst craving you, seems to have forgotten you
and wouldn’t recognise you if you did make yourselves known?Do you despise the modern world in all its
blandness and insensitivity? Are you frightened and feeling unloved?

Well, I don’t think you ever understood love, and that is
your problem.Inspire all those great
things in so many souls down the ages, but do it without love and sooner or
later it all falls apart.Even the
finest palace can start to look like an out of season theme park.

Still, if you do decide to roam abroad at all and your
wanderings take you down this way, do pop in for a drink, we’d love to see you,